Elvin sitting down on the job...

Library haul...

this is what happens when
you order books late at night
at least it wasn't an amazon order
😀

 I love curly parsley way more than that Italian parsley...

Figs on the fig tree...

In the judgment chapter of the Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen I found this paragraph interesting...

     Judgment does not only take the form of criticism.  Approval is also a form of judgment.  When we approve of people, we sit in judgment of them as surely as when we criticize them.  Positive judgment of them as surely as when we criticize them.  Positive judgment hurts less acutely than criticism, but it is judgment all the same and we are harmed by it in far more subtle ways.  To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary.  Like all judgment, approval encourages a constant striving.  It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value.  This is as true of the approval we give ourselves as it is of the approval we offer others.  Approval can’t be trusted.  It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been.  It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy.  Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.